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...associates in Athens, promised Jackie both his villa on the French Riviera and a hacienda in Mexico. But Christina will surely take over the family's regal penthouse on Avenue Foch in Paris and the 500-acre Skorpiós; the day after the funeral, she took command of the 325-ft. yacht that bears her name by informing the captain and crew that their jobs were all secure...
THESE LAPSES, however, seem less important beside Kaplan's achievement. A first-time author, she may need to polish her technique, but she already has at her command no meager arsenal of short-story writing equipment. Above all, these stories display her sure handed ability to sketch character in a few lines of dialogue and her understanding of the delicate juggling act an individual must perform to balance the sharing of other people's lives with the need for one's own private existence...
...champion was in command throughout and looked as if he could end the fight at any point as the slow-moving Wepner plodded through the ring throwing off-the-mark punches at his classier target...
...Secretary's peace-keeping mission. Last week Syrian President Hafez Assad tried to pull the Palestinians into the negotiations. Assad, who has switched significantly from opposing second-stage talks between Israel and Egypt to demanding a role in them for Syria, suddenly proposed a joint Syrian-Palestinian military command that would continue to fight for the recovery of Palestinian land from Israel. His proposal was obviously designed to put pressure on Sadat and keep him part of a united Arab confrontation front. The move appeared to take even some Palestinians by surprise...
Persona Grata. As usual, there were suggestions of CIA involvement. General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, 37, the hot-tempered head of COPCON, the military security command, indirectly implicated American Ambassador Frank Carlucci in the plot and warned him that he "had better leave." Washington denied any involvement, however, and calmer heads in Lisbon declared that Carlucci was still persona grata...